We had a great panel in Austin yesterday with Maria Popova (BrainPickings), David Carr (the New York Times), Mia Quagliarello (Flipboard) and Noah Brier (Percolate). Moderated by Max Linsky (longform.org)

To which Flipboard answers that they're working on such a model to conciliate beautiful content and beautiful ads. Maria Popova also points out that curation can be sold, though scalability of such a model is questionned.

I think in the end, the key take-away is the value of curation, a very human act, amplified by technology - as Marie points out - but pre-existing as Jeff Jarvis also remarked in the previous tweet. A value that resides in discovery and serendipity: